Centralization

The concentration of managerial functions at one point within the system.

Centralized planning: planning governed centrally by the state covering all the goods and services that will be produced and how factors of production shall be allocated between sectors of a business or an economy.

WHO/Europe. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Glossary. 2009.

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